As a dentist you regularly interface with your patients and your community, making you a public figure and the target of online and offline discussion. How patients discuss you, in a good or bad light, can be strongly influenced by you and your team. In essence, much of their opinion of you is shaped by how you present yourself and your practice — and whether they agree that you live up to those expectations.

"The design of the nylon toothbrush has remained virtually unchanged for more than 70 years," said Cindy Yu, president of O'Nano Solutions. "Our vision is to reinvent past toothbrush designs using advanced technology and materials to bring a better toothbrush to the world. Because gum disease is epidemic, we wanted to focus our first designs on care for this population."

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One of the speakers at 3DU is Dr. John Flucke, the chief dental editor and technology editor for Dental Products Report.

Operating a successful dental practice often means finding a balance between doing quality work in an efficient manner and not sacrificing anything for the patient. Discovering where that balance lies often depends on what part of the United States your practice resides.
At Bizga Dental, Inc., in Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Dr. Timothy M. Bizga realized he can’t bill patients on an hourly basis like his colleagues in places such as Chicago or California. So for him, it’s all about being as efficient as possible.